Property in East Central Europe
Title | Property in East Central Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Hannes Siegrist |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | 341 |
Release | 2014-11-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1782384626 |
Property is a complex phenomenon comprising cultural, social, and legal rules. During the twentieth century, property rights in land suffered massive interference in Central and Eastern Europe. The promise of universal and formally equal rights of land ownership, ensuring predictability of social processes and individual autonomy, was largely not fulfilled. The national appropriation of property in the interwar period and the communist era represent an onerous legacy for the postcommunist (re)construction of a liberal-individualist property regime. However, as the scholars in this collection show, after the demise of communism in Eastern Europe property is again a major factor in shaping individual identity and in providing the political order and culture with a foundational institution. This volume analyzes both historical and contemporary forms of land ownership in Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia in a multidisciplinary framework including economic history, legal and political studies, and social anthropology.
East Central Europe
Title | East Central Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Wojciech Roszkowski |
Publisher | Instytut Studiów Politycznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Instytut Jagielloński |
Total Pages | 554 |
Release | 2015-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 8365972204 |
What is East Central Europe? Can it be defined with any precision? The question of definition is a difficult one as is ussually the case concerning borderlands whose historical developments show little continuity and an uncertain identity born of the conflict between aspirations and reality. It is in East Central Europe that „no peace settlement is ever final, no frontiers are secure and each generation must begin its work anew”. Is there any chance that this definition will become out of date?
The Privatization Process in East-Central Europe
Title | The Privatization Process in East-Central Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Michal Mejstrík |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | 346 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1461563518 |
It is beyond any doubt that East-Central European countries such as Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia has dramatically changed its shape through its radical transition from centrally planned to the market economies in last 7 years. Many economists divide the process of economic transformation into areas of Stabilization, Liberalization, and Privatization/Restructuring. The traditional view is that stabilization and liberalization can be achieved rather quickly-by balancing budgets, balance of payments, tightening money supply, freeing prices and liberalizing trade-but that the area of privatization is one that could be moved to the future and will require much more time. Until 1991, none of the post-communist nations except former East Germany (which had a large decree of support from West Germany) had succeeded in privatizing large numbers of enterprises, even though more than two years had passed since the changes in government in these nations. The privatization has been, however, seen as an extremely important part of reform package together with stabilization and liberalization especially in the Czech Republic from the very beginning. The Czechs originally as a part of the Czechoslovak Federal Republic embarked on an unprecedented path that should have lead not only to stabilization and liberalization, but also to very rapid, mass privatization of its sector of large enterprises that have dominated its economy to an extreme extent.
The Routledge History of East Central Europe Since 1700
Title | The Routledge History of East Central Europe Since 1700 PDF eBook |
Author | Irina Livezeanu |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | 539 |
Release | 2017-03-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1351863436 |
"Covers territory from Russia in the east to Germany and Austria in the west, exploring the origins and evolution of modernity in this region"--Provided by the publisher.
East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union
Title | East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Bradshaw |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 287 |
Release | 2016-04-15 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1317905024 |
A comprehensive introduction to the important economic, social and political processes and development issues in this increasingly popular area of study. Employing a groundbreaking thematic approach the book centres its discussion on the interrelation between contemporary development theories and continuing transition issues in this huge and complex region.
Postsocialist Pathways
Title | Postsocialist Pathways PDF eBook |
Author | David Stark |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 1998-02-28 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780521589741 |
This book, first published in 1998, analyzes democratization and economic change in the postsocialist societies of East Central Europe.
Business Ethics in East Central Europe
Title | Business Ethics in East Central Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Koslowski |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | 155 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 3642608833 |
The transformation process from the planned to the market economy in the East Central European countries is a laboratory of applying economic theory and business ethics to an enormous historical transition in the economic and political system. Authors from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia analyse the economic, philosophical and political problems of the transition process. They discuss the economic and legal questions of the privatization of socialized property, examine critically whether pure Liberalism has been and is able to cope with the transition problems, and investigate the role and impact of business ethics in the transition process. This volume contributes to the theory of the role of business ethics in periods of institutional change.